Material synthesis: fusing the physical and the computational

Editorial 05  Helen Castle     About the Guest-Editor 06  Achim Menges     Introduction Fusing the Computational and the Physical: Towards a Novel Material Culture 08  Achim Menges     The New Materiality: Towards a Novel Material Culture 16  Manuel DeLanda     The New Science of Form-Searching 22  Mario Carpo     The New Cyber-Physical Making in Architecture: Computational Construction 28  Achim Menges     Self-X materials and Structures in Nature and Technology: Bio-inspiration as a Driving Force for Technical Innocation 34  Thomas Speck, Jan Knippers and Olga Speck  Fibrous Tectonics 40 Achim Menges and Jan Knippers  ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2012: Coreless Filament Winding Based on the Morphological Principles of an Arthropod Exoskeleton 48  Jan Knippers, Riccardo, La Magna, Achim Menges, Steffen Reichert, Tobias Schwinn,and  Frederic Waimer     ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2013   14: Modular Coreless Filament Winding Based on Beetle Elytra 54  Moritz Doerstelmann, Jan Knippers, Achim Menges, Stefana Parascho, Marshall Prado, and Tobias Schwinn     ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2014   15: Fibre Placement on a Pneumatic Body Based on a Water Spider Web 60  Moritz Doerstelmann, Jan Knippers, Valentin Koslowski, Achim Menges, Marshall Prado, Gundula Schieber, Lauren Vasey     Performative Wood: Physically Programming the Responsive Architecture of the HygroScope and HygroSkin Projects 66  Achim Menges and Steffen Reichert     Structural Stone Surfaces: New Compression Shells Inspired by the Past 74  Philippe Block, Tom Van Mele and Matthias Rippmann     Membrane Morphologies: Heterogeneous Forces and Articulated Material Form 80  Sean Ahlquist     Granular Morphologies: Programming Material Behaviour with Designed Aggregates 86  Karola Dierichs and Achim Menges     Fabrication Agency: Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall 92 Tobias Schwinn and Achim Menges   Templating Design for Biology and Biology for Design 100  Neri Oxman     Hacking Science: The ALivE Group   s Material Design Methods for Interdisciplinary Enivornments 108  Martin Bechthold and Allen Sayegh     Computational Design and Automotive Material:Cross-disciplinary Design Research by the Mercedes-Benz Center of Advanced Design and the Institute for Computational Design (ICD), University of Stuttgart 114  Bastian Baudy, Steffen Koehl, Achim Menges and Steffen Reichert     Macrofabrication with Digital Materials: Robotic Assembly 122  Neil Gershenfeld, Matthew Carney, Benjamin Jenett, Sam Calisch and Spencer Wilson     Counterpoint Actualising (Overlooked) Material Capacities 128  Branko Kolarevic     Contributors 134